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by erikb 4025 days ago
I'm not good at security stuff, but is a hardcoded password not much worse than any string written to some kind of config database but that is different for every program installation or system user?
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It’s about the same, as anyone would be able to read the generated password from the config database (since where to store it would still be hardcoded in the binary).